slackware 10.2 and gnumeric

**Cat** · 10-17-2006, 04:18 PM

Hi all,
I am very happy with my slack 10.2, but I could use some more tools to get some plots done. I've browsed the KDE-apps and found some apps that solved the problem for a while but I need to get "serious" now.
I was suggested to use gnumeric, but so far it has proven to be a pain to get installed... :S

I have followed this

For simplicity, I have downloaed these packages:

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gconf-2.6.2-i486-1.tgz
gnome-keyring-0.2.1-i486-1.tgz
gnumeric-1.2.13-i486-1.tgz
libbonobo-2.6.2-i486-1.tgz
libbonoboui-2.6.1-i486-1.tgz
libgnome-2.6.1.1-i486-2.tgz
libgnomeprint-2.6.1-i486-1.tgz
libgnomeprintui-2.6.1-i486-1.tgz
libgnomeui-2.6.1.1-i486-1.tgz
orbit2-2.10.2-i486-1.tgz

and did as he said:

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There was one library that took me a while to find: libgsf-gnome-1.so.1. It was in libgsf-1.9.1-i486-1.tgz in the "l" directory. I did NOT run installpkg on it, since that would have overwritten /usr/lib/libgsf-1.so. Instead, I used tar to extract libgsf-gnome-1.la and libgsf-gnome-1.so.1.9.1 from the tgz file, put them in /usr/lib, created libgsf-gnome-1.so.1 as a soft link to libgsf-gnome-1.so.1.9.1 and created libgsf-1.so.1 as a soft-link to the existing libgsf-1.so.* library (in Slackware 11.0, this is libgsf-1.so.114.0.1.

but it didnt work. At the moment my console talks to me and says:

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gnumeric: error while loading shared libraries: libgnome-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Ideas?

I am thinking about installing Freerock Gnome. That should solve my 'problem', right?

Thanks and sorry for the long post...
**Cat**

Andrew Benton · 10-17-2006, 05:15 PM

What about your error message? Does /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0 exist? It should be a symbolic link pointing at libgnome-2.so.0.$version

**Cat** · 10-18-2006, 08:37 AM

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rita@lappy:/usr/lib$ ls libgn*
libgnet-2.0.a libgnomecups-1.0.so@ libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0.1.0*
libgnet-2.0.la* libgnomecups-1.0.so.1@ libgnomeui-2.la*
libgnet-2.0.so@ libgnomecups-1.0.so.1.0.0* libgnomeui-2.so@
libgnet-2.0.so.0@ libgnomeprint-2-2.la* libgnomeui-2.so.0@
libgnet-2.0.so.0.6.1* libgnomeprint-2-2.so@ libgnomeui-2.so.0.600.1*
libgnome-keyring.la* libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0@ libgnomevfs-2.la*
libgnome-keyring.so@ libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0.1.0* libgnomevfs-2.so@
libgnome-keyring.so.0@ libgnomeprintui-2-2.la* libgnomevfs-2.so.0@
libgnome-keyring.so.0.0.0* libgnomeprintui-2-2.so@ libgnomevfs-2.so.0.400.0*
libgnomecups-1.0.la* libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0@

apparently it doesnt exist...
**Cat**

Andrew Benton · 10-18-2006, 11:12 AM

It looks like you need to install libgnome

tuxdev · 10-18-2006, 12:38 PM

You may find www.amigolinux.org helpful for getting Gnumeric installed and running. It has packages that are a bit more updated, and tested specifically for getting GNOME compatibility on Slackware. The actual packages you want are at
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...E-COMPAT-2.10/

**Cat** · 10-19-2006, 07:08 AM

tuxdev,

and keep the change...

many thanks, worked like a charm

**Cat**